This is critical since these are the form of identification most often used for such security-sensitive purposes as boarding commercial aircraft, gaining access to federal facilities and establishing bank accounts.

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"Our daily lives were the major inspiration, being young people and part of a changing country trying to form its future in a very sensitive period, " said guitarist Firas Abu-Fakhr.

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They are fast enough to scan trucks and cars as they pass through toll booths, portable enough to be used almost anywhere and sensitive enough to distinguish between a weapons-grade isotope and the less dangerous form in an X-ray machine.

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